satelliten.
/ˈsatəlʌɪt/, /ˈsatl̩ʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈsædlˌaɪt/ 1.
a. A member of the retinue or staff of an important person, charged with carrying out his or her orders or (esp. in early use) protecting his or her person; an attendant; a guard, a bodyguard. Now rare or merged in sense 1b.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun]
thanea700
yeoman1345
squirec1380
foot followera1382
handservanta1382
servitora1382
ministera1384
servera1425
squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450
attender1461
waitera1483
awaiter1495
tender?a1505
waiting-man1518
satellite?1520
attendant1555
sitter-byc1555
pediseque1606
asseclist?1607
tendant1614
assecle1616
fewterera1625
escudero1631
peon1638
wait1652
under spur-leather1685
body servant1689
slavey1819
tindal1859
maid-attendant1896
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth viii. f. xi Whan this treatoure satellyte was entred with his company & had broken into the inwarde edifices: diuers of them serched for the prince Hiempsall.
?1543 M. Coverdale Christen Exhortacion f. 4v This afore tyme, was hydden from vs, by the frye of the the [sic] serpent, the satellytes of antichriste, the sorcerers of Ægypte, with ther mynysters.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lijv Enuironed with his satellytes and yomen of the crowne.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 660 The first man, to recover Theramenes, from out the hands of the officers and satelites, of the thirtie tyrants of Athens, who were leading him to his death.
1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion ii. 13 You need..no sterne Satellites Drawn from the Temple.
1657 J. Hinckley 2 Serm. ii. 67 Methinkes these solemnities, occasion aweful thoughts of the day of judgment; the Satellites or Spear-men may put us in mind of those thousands of Angells, which shall minister unto him.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 61 His Estate and Effects were all confiscated to the Imperial Treasury; and his Body Guards and Satellites were all cut in Pieces.
1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 147 Our most august visitant..followed by his naked train of satellites.
1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) II. iv. iii. 384 Tyrants, encompassed by their armed satellites.
1902 H. T. Henry tr. Pope Leo XIII Poems, Charades, Inscriptions 83 He escaped, only to fall again into the hands of the Emperor's satellites, who wounded him night unto death.
1943 E. A. Babcock & A. C. Krey tr. William of Tyre Hist. Deeds done beyond Sea I. ix. 410 Why was he not surrounded by tapestries and silken stuffs and attended by a throng of armed satellites, so as to present a formidable appearance to those who approached him?
b. Frequently depreciative. More generally: a follower; a hanger-on; a person who tries to win the favour or patronage of an influential or important person, by constant attendance on or obsequious deference towards him or her.
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1606 D. Tilenus Positions held by Bishop of Eureux Pref. sig. ¶3 [He] being in the middest of his Satellites, or parasites, who by their acclamations did reenforce his cries, and did like the birds of Psaphon sing his praises.
1700 T. Emes Let. to Gentleman conc. Alkali & Acid 41 Because Mr. Colebatch says, Acids are the only Medicines that cure all Diseases, he is sure of it..and his little Satelites must say so, tho' neither he nor they can tell how it Operates, or why they give it.
1752 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. vi. 167 Henry the eighth divided, with the secular clergy and his people, the spoil of the pope, and his satellites, the monks.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xiii. 144 Boswell was..made happy by an introduction to Johnson, of whom he became the obsequious satellite.
1939 J. Colville Diary 19 Sept. in Fringes of Power (1985) 25 Even Hitler and his satellites usually have something on which to base statements of this kind.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters i. 20 He heard of this or that undeserving Fitzsimmons satellite being given a higher union office.
2011 J. Thompson Year we left Home 298 Elton and his satellites were moving in one direction around the room, Chip in the other.
2.
a. A smaller or secondary celestial object orbiting a larger one, esp. a moon orbiting a planet.Some early examples of plural use could instead show the plural of satelles: see note in etymology of satelles n.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > secondary planet, satellite > [noun]
under-orb1605
satellite1645
lunar1655
satelles1660
secondary planet1664
moon1665
lunula1676
secondary1734
exomoon2008
1645 J. Pell Let. 20 Jan. in J. Pell & his Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 399 His glasses are very good; and discover 30 (or more) in the pleiades. Many new satellites also, not yet heard of.
1693 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Origin of World: 3rd Pt. 14 Jupiter and Saturn..have many Satellites about them.
1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 33 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The Moon is the Earth's Secondary or Satellite.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 766 We can spare The splendour of your lamps; they but eclipse Our softer satellite.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xli. 488 The stars and sun, the planets and their satellites, and lastly the comets, will be severally described.
1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours viii. 184 We have no satisfactory evidence that the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn turn always the same face towards their primary.
1946 A. C. Clarke Loophole in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Apr. 58/2 Equip an expedition to the satellite of Earth immediately. It is to..report at once if rocket experiments are in progress.
1964 H. S. H. Massey tr. V. L. Ginzburg & S. I. Syrovatskii Origin Cosmic Rays xii. 228 Only the very close galaxies M32 and NGC 205 are generally called satellites of the galaxy M31.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1974) xv. 110 Phobos and Deimos are the first satellites of another planet to have been photographed close-up.
2006 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 20 Mar. 2 c/1 Enceladus..is a satellite of Saturn that measures around 300 miles across and 940 miles around.
b. A device designed to be launched into and operate in orbit around a planet or other celestial object, and typically used for scientific or military purposes, or as part of a telecommunications system.In quot. 1880 with reference to a projectile overshot into space and likened to the moon (see sense 2a).Recorded earliest in artificial satellite (artificial satellite n. at artificial adj. and n. Compounds 2).balloon satellite, communications satellite, space satellite, spy satellite, television satellite, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > satellite
space station1930
artificial satellite1936
satellite1936
satellite station1945
earth satellite1949
space platform1951
space satellite1952
satelloid1955
sputnik1957
orbiter1958
1880 W. H. G. Kingston tr. J. Verne Begum's Fortune xiii. 180 Two hundred thousand dollars is not too much to have paid for the pleasure of having endowed the planetary world with a new star, and the earth with a second satellite.]
1936 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 1 May 6/3 Mr. Cleator..suggests in all seriousness..the construction of artificial satellites to revolve endlessly about the earth some 600 miles up, carrying supplies for itinerant star visitors.
1936 Discovery Sept. 299/2 The scheme for building a metal outpost satellite and propelling it in a fixed orbit 600 miles above the earth's surface.
1957 Times 7 Oct. 8/1 The Russian satellite soaring over the United States seven times a day has made an enormous impression on American minds.
1977 Bull. Atomic Scientists June 18/2 Considerable efforts are currently being made to increase the survivability in war of military satellites.
1987 New Scientist 16 July 42/2 Next year a company in Luxembourg..will launch Europe's first commercial television satellite.
2015 Maclean's (Toronto) 7 Sept. 71/2 When a satellite suddenly conks out and becomes inactive while floating in orbit, someone should really clean that up.
c. Originally: = satellite television n. at Compounds 2. In later use sometimes also more generally: any broadcasting or telecommunications service in which signals are transmitted via satellite (sense 2b).
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1982 A. T. Easton Home Satellite TV Bk. iii. 34 Several children's networks are offered on satellite.
1989 Daily Mail 16 Sept. 30 (advt.) You pay NO satellite fees because you're NOT getting satellite!
1999 PC Mag. 20 Apr. 161 You probably won't be choosing among cable modem, DSL, and satellite services, because with the exception of satellite, these services have only limited availability today.
2005 Billboard 12 Mar. 51/3 Citizens choose to pay to bring cable and satellite into their homes.
2011 C. Forrester High Above i. 14 People consume content and their appetite grows larger day by day. And satellite delivers that content.
3.
a. Something which stands in a subordinate or subsidiary relationship to another larger, more important, or more significant thing; esp. one of a number or group of such things. Frequently attributive (see Compounds 1a(c)).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies
purtenancea1382
accessory1429
retinue?a1439
accessaryc1475
companion1533
annexe?1541
hanger-ona1555
supply1567
copemate1581
complement1586
fere1593
adjective1597
annexment1604
annexary1605
attendant1607
adherence1610
adjacent1610
wife1616
fellower1620
coincident1626
attendancy1654
associate1658
appanage1663
conjunct1667
perquisite1667
familiar1668
satellite1702
accompaniment1709
accompanying1761
side dish1775
obbligato1825
shadow1830
rider1859
gadget1917
1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1174 These Blisters were so placed about the Spots, that they might in some measure be term'd Satellites or Tenders.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 205 He too, like a portentous comet, has risen again above the court-horizon... Who are those two satellites that attend his motions?
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvii. 377 The archipelago is a little world within itself, or rather a satellite attached to America.
1887 O. M. Stone (title) Tenerife and its six satellites.
1891 E. A. Freeman Sketches Fr. Trav. 126 At Poitiers the interest of the cathedral church is far smaller than that of its satellite the baptistery.
1914 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Nov. 92/2 The operation of switching mechanism at the main exchange and at the satellite.
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) ii. 205 So he drifts, through the bright and milling gaming rooms, the dining hall and its smaller private satellites.
2002 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Metro section) b3 Lakeland [campus] is one of three fast-growing satellites of the university, which has its main campus in Tampa.
b. A country or state which is economically or politically dependent on another; a country or state that is dominated or controlled by another.Quot. 1776 shows sense 2a; it is unclear whether Paine's analogy influenced the development of this sense.
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society > authority > subjection > [noun] > dependency > a country or state which is dependent on another
satellite1780
1776 T. Paine Common Sense 25 In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverse the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems. England to Europe: America to itself.]
1780 Morning Post 29 Dec. With so many ready, and natural opportunities for enlarging their territories, it is not reasonable to suppose, that your [sc. England's] possessions, which they [sc. the American colonies] usually call the Appendages, or Satellites of America, will be free from attack.
1791 Parl. Reg. Ireland X. 125 This country..is still in but an obscure situation; it is but a satellite to England, attendant upon her without any orbit of its own.
1827 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 282 The governments of the [Italian] Peninsula ceased to form an independent system. Drawn from their old orbit by the attraction of the larger bodies which now approached them, they became mere satellites of France and Spain.
1898 Baedeker's Spain & Portugal 504 The famous Methuen Treaty (1703), though doubtless going far to assure the independent existence of Portugal, practically made it a commercial satellite of England.
1930 Economist 8 Nov. 844/2 A military alliance against France between a Fascist Italy and a Fascist Germany, with a bevy of East European satellites—Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Austria—to balance Poland and the Little Entente?
1936 Pacific Affairs Sept. 404 Outer Mongolia may well be called a satellite of the Soviet Union.
1974 M. B. Brown Econ. of Imperialism xii. 286 Cuba is not a satellite of the USSR in the same sense that other Latin American States are satellites of the USA.
2017 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 19 Nov. Romania had been a satellite of the Soviet Union since 1948.
c. A town or community which is economically or otherwise dependent on a nearby larger town or city; a relatively independent smaller metropolitan area which is seen as subsidiary to, or is associated in some way with, a nearby larger metropolis.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > satellite or dormitory town
satellite1841
dormitory1923
sputnik town1958
1841 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 18 Nov. A century ago, ere roads and newspapers had established an electric chain betwixt the capital and her satellites, every country town was the capital of its province.
1868 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 14 Practically, she [sc. Boston] is no centre at all, but only a great satellite of New York.
1935 Archit. Rev. 77 188 (caption) 19th Century. Came the railways and with them the first general exodus, suburbs and satellites springing up round the railway stations.
1977 R.A.F. News 27 Apr. 8/2 No. 50(B) Squadron was then based at Skellingthorpe, west of Lincoln (a satellite of Swinderby).
2006 J. Treglown in Granta Summer 90 My preference was for a hamlet called Segura, today almost a shanty town, a satellite of Cáceres.
2018 Times (Nexis) 1 Fe. 31 An investigation..last year found that overseas buyers were purchasing flats in Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester, as well as satellites of London such as Slough.
4. † b. The calliope hummingbird, Stellula calliope. Also more fully satellite hummingbird. Obsolete.
a. A large noctuid moth of northern Eurasia, Eupsilia transversa, having greyish brown wings with a prominent pale spot on the hindwing flanked by two smaller spots. Also more fully satellite moth.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth)
farfalla1606
taper-fly?1614
candle-fly1626
moth1646
phalaena1658
pilser1736
redneck1773
bustard1803
soul1815
notch-wing1819
satellite1832
bobowler1852
1796 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects V. 81 The upper wings of this moth have a very striking characteristic; that is, the yellowish lunar mark within two small spots: from this character it has been aptly named Satelliti [sic]; and in English, the Satellite Moth.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 62 The Satellite (Glæa Satellitia, Stephens) appears in September.
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 65 One of the largest species is the Satellite (Scopelosoma satellitia), which sometimes expands nearly two inches.
a1912 W. F. Kirby Butterflies & Moths Romance & Reality (1913) 113 One of the largest and most interesting representatives of this family is the Satellite Moth.., which is one of those which is common both in spring and autumn.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands iv. 51 Other moths whose larvae can live on oak include: vapourer, merveille du jour, brindled green, satellite, flounced chestnut,..green long-horn and others.
2011 D. L. Wagner et al. Owlet Caterpillars Eastern N. Amer. 449 While the Satellite (E. transversa), a European moth, is notoriously predatory, we have not noted cannibalistic behavior in any North American Eupsilia.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird)
hummer1606
hum-bird1634
hummingbird1637
trochilus1752
bee-bird1771
honeysucker1773
fly-bird1782
coquette1854
satellite1857
1857 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ (1861) III. Pl. 142 Calothorax Calliope. Mexican Satellite.
1891 Ann Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1890 354 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 129, Pt. II) XI. Calliope Humming Bird. Stellula calliope, Gould,..Mexican Satellite (Gould). Star-throated Humming Bird. Satellite Humming Bird.
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1873 G. Salmon Treat. Higher Plane Curves (ed. 2) v. 170 A case where the satellite cuts the sides of the asymptotic triangle.
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 42 129 In the present paper the explicit equation of the satellite is exhibited both for the rational and the general cubic, in canonical form, and some associated loci are considered.
6. In spectroscopy: a secondary or additional line appearing in a spectrum, typically near to, and with less intensity than, one of the main lines or bands. Cf. satellite line n. (b) at Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > [noun] > spectral line > caused by irregularity, spurious
satellite line1857
satellite1882
1882 C. P. Smyth Madeira Spectroscopic ii. 10/1 At a height of 10,000 feet above the sea-level, it is quite possible that little a and all its satellites would have ceased to have any apparent existence in the Solar spectrum.
1924 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 48 501 On moving the eyepiece back, the line broadened and a faint black ‘satellite’ split off from it, moving slowly across the grating.
1971 Physics Bull. July 388/3 The centre line is due to Rayleigh scattering and the satellites arise from transverse ( t) and longitudinal ( l) phonons.
2001 Physical Rev. A. 022710-1/1 These satellites often blend with their parent emission lines or lines from other ions.
7. Histology. A satellite cell in a neural structure or muscle (see satellite cell n. at Compounds 2).
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of
nerve vesicle1839
brain cell1848
stellate cell1870
Purkinje cell1872
neuroblast1878
touch cell1878
Golgi('s) cell1892
memory cell1892
astrocyte1896
astroblast1897
motor neuron1897
cytochrome1898
stichochrome1899
monaxon1900
basket cell1901
relay neuron1903
internuncial neuron1906
sheath cell1906
motoneuron1908
adjustor1909
satellite1912
microglia1924
oligodendroglia1924
sympathicoblast1927
pituicyte1930
oligodendrocyte1932
sympathoblast1934
sympathogonia1934
interneuron1938
Renshaw cell1954
1912 S. T. Orton in Proc. Amer. Medico-Psychol. Assoc. 68th Ann. Meeting 310 The results of the chromolytic process can be seen in some cells and the lower layers show a slightly greater number of satellites than would be considered normal.
1928 W. Penfield in E. V. Cowdry Special Cytol. II. xxx. 1055 Specific stains showed the perivascular and perineuronal oligoglia satellites to be definitely increased.
1958 P. Glees in W. F. Windle Biol. Neuroglia xv. 237 The large cells of Betz have only a few satellites.
2002 New Scientist 6 Apr. 32/1 These satellites..seem able to undergo only a limited number of repair cycles before accumulated DNA damage impedes this process.
8. Microbiology and Biology. A satellite colony of bacteria or other cells (see satellite colony n. at Compounds 2). Frequently attributive (see Compounds 1b).
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [noun] > satellite
satellite1919
1919 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1 Mar. 619/2 The small, colorless, dewdrop-like colonies of B. influenzae..are prone to develop as satellites about the large staphylococcus colony.
1948 Bergey's Man. Determinative Bacteriol. (ed. 6) 310 The microscopic appearance of agar colonies each of which is surrounded by a constellation of satellites.
1980 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 142 977/2 Sometimes typical spiroplasma colonies with well-developed satellites occurred next to colonies of a much less granular appearance with no satellites.
2002 Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiol. (ed. 11) lv. 882/2 Either overlaying a streak of Staphylococcus aureus or dropping a pyridoxal disk to produce the supplement generally demonstrates colonies of the streptococci growing as tiny satellites next to the streak.
9. Cell Biology. A short segment of a chromosome located at an end of, or within, one of its arms, demarcated by a single constriction (narrowed section) or a pair of constrictions.These structures were originally interpreted as separate chromosomes (see quot. 1921).See also microsatellite n. 1a.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > part or section
satellite1921
trabant1926
secondary constriction1932
puff1936
microsatellite1962
pseudogene1977
1921 Ann. Bot. 35 389 Two of those pairs are very small and lie centrally in the chromosome group. Nawaschin calls them satellites.
1926 C. D. Darlington in Jrnl. Genetics 16 246 Chromosome ‘G’ is seen to be approaching the pole with the satellite foremost; this means that the satellite is endowed with special responsiveness to the attraction of the pole.
1960 Lancet 14 May 1063/2 In some chromosomes the additional criterion of the presence of a satellite is available.., but in view of the apparent morphological variation of satellites, they and their connecting strands are excluded in computing the indices.
2016 W. J. Wall Search for Human Chromosomes v. 65 It is not unusual to find G and D group chromosomes very nearly touching, satellites to satellites.
10. Molecular Biology. Satellite DNA (satellite DNA n. at Compounds 2); a band of this observed in an experimental preparation.See also microsatellite n. 1b, minisatellite n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > DNA > section of
operator1961
satellite1962
junk DNA1963
spacer1963
transposon1974
antisense1977
retroposon1983
retrotransposon1985
retroelement1988
microsatellite1989
1962 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 4 439 Calf thymus satellite was found at the same position in each of three different DNA preparations isolated from thymus tissue obtained from different animals.
1972 Exper. Cell Res. 71 128/1 The latter technique showed the presence of hidden satellites in the chicken.
1977 H. Rees & R. N. Jones Chromosome Genetics ii. 22 Exceptional DNA segments may have an unusually high or low G + C content. When plotted, these fractions appear as heavy or light satellites respectively at the tails of the ‘main-band’ DNA. Heavy satellites are found in the guinea pig and in human DNA.
2002 M. Wjst in S. T. Holgate & J. W. Holloway Hereditary Basis Allergic Dis. 17 The term ‘microsatellite DNA’ derives from the initial observation of these repeats as side or satellite bands by ultracentrifugation over a CsCl gradient.
2009 J. C. Knight Human Genetic Diversity Gloss. 400/1 Tandem repeats, tandemly repeated DNA sequences..; classified on the basis of the size of the repeat array into satellites, minisatellites, and microsatellites.
Compounds
C1. attributive.In some quots. passing into adjectival use.
a.
(a) In sense 3b, as satellite country, satellite state, etc.
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1798 J. Dennis Addr. People Maryland App. p. i They intended to take Savoy, incorporate it with Geneva and make of them one of those satellite republics, which she has since been establishing, wherever she extends her arms.
1851 M. Pisani tr. G. Rosini Convent & Harem II. xi. 170 Florence, Genoa, Lucca, and what we may call the Satellite States around, were..in a politically good understanding together.
1859 Sat. Rev. 3 Sept. 269/1 To Frenchmen, the aggrandizement or glorification of France is infinitely more interesting than the improvement or liberation of the satellite countries which surround the great nation.
1937 Washington Post 1 Apr. 13/5 Soviet fears that a satellite Fascist state may be created in the peninsula if Franco wins.
1956 E. E. Cummings Let. 26 Nov. (1969) 253 Urging (via night & day broadcasts) the socalled satellite nations to revolt from colossal Russia.
2010 Times 27 Sept. 5/4 A Chinese satellite state, with the same relationship to Beijing that eastern European countries had to the Soviet Union, might suit them best too.
(b) In sense 3c, as satellite city, satellite town, etc.
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1841 Standard 6 Aug. We do not deny the existence of some distress in Manchester and its satellite towns, or in Paisley and Glasgow.
1859 Era 19 June 5/3 The Chess clubs in the commercial capital of the great republic and its satellite township..got up a superb testimonial.
1864 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 25 June 728/1 The enemy hastily put himself on the march to save the satellite city of his capital.
1875 Manch. Guardian 13 Feb. 7/5 This town is to Merthyr and its satellite communities what Liverpool is to Manchester, and something more.
1933 B. Smith Rural Crime Control i. 28 This revolution in the conditions of rural life has been accentuated in the suburban areas and satellite villages which have sprung up in just a few decades.
1977 New Yorker 13 June 94/2 The new Taichung port..is to include a separate satellite city.
2004 J. Dickie Cosa Nostra xi. 320 He was being driven into Palermo from his home in Mondello, Palermo's seaside satellite town, when the windscreen and one of the tyres of his car were shot out.
(c) With the sense ‘that stands in a subordinate or subsidiary relationship to another larger, more important, or more significant thing; subsidiary, subordinate; ancillary’.
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society > authority > subjection > [adjective]
underheilda1300
underlouta1300
underling?1370
subjecta1382
obeisantc1390
obedienta1398
subditc1430
subordinatec1485
subjugal?c1500
liablec1571
subaltern1581
regardant1583
obnoxious1591
vassal1594
servient1606
subservient1638
succumbent1647
ancillary1667
secondary1667
supposite1677
discretional1776
obedientiary1794
heteronomousa1871
satellite1882
1882 Athenæum 25 Nov. 705/3 Each court is thus furnished with its system of satellite rooms, all communicating by the minor corridor which encloses them.
1892 B. Potter Jrnl. 8 Aug. (1966) 245 We..found the thirteen or fourteen vans drawn up in the town square, and covered with a tarpaulin, with several satellite peep shows.
1923 W. N. Shaw Forecasting Weather v. 115 Two detached secondary or satellite depressions.
1931 Economist 17 Oct. 699/1 The Indian currency and..the various ‘satellite’ currencies of the Crown Colonies and Possessions.
1957 Observer 8 Sept. 7/3 When fashion makes a decisive move innumerable satellite trades are affected.
1976 NBR Marketplace (Wellington, N.Z.) iii. 37/2 The satellite seminar was joined by dozens of doctors and nurses.
1998 H. Good Girl Reporter xvi. 73 In all four films, Torchy and McBride are surrounded by secondary, or satellite, couples.
b. Microbiology and Biology. With the sense ‘of or relating to a satellite colony of bacteria or other cells (see satellite colony n. at Compounds 2)’, as satellite culture, satellite growth, etc.
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1899 Amer. Year-bk. Med. & Surg. 696 Twenty-four hours in the incubator suffice to give beautiful satellite cultures of Pfeiffer's bacillus.
1940 M. Frobisher Fund. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) xxv. 355 (caption) ‘Satellite’ formation by Hemophilus influenzae on ‘chocolate-agar’ plate.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xii. 191 This [sc. the larger size of colonies of Haemophilus influenzae colonies growing near staphylococci] is referred to as the satellite phenomenon and is due to extra V factor supplied by the staphylococci.
2007 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 195 84/1 An isolate was identified as H. influenzae on the basis of 5 criteria: (1) colony morphology; (2) satellite growth around a staphylococcus streak, [etc.].
c.
(a) In sense 2b, as satellite launch, satellite signal, satellite technology, etc.
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1948 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 30 Dec. 2/8 Forrestal released news of the satellite program in his first annual report to the president on the unified defense establishment.
1958 Operations Res. 6 26 A rocket engine of high thrust, for example, is a component of a missile or satellite launcher.
1962 IRE Trans. Communications Syst. 10 219/1 Additional launch pads might conceivably be built exclusively for satellite launches.
1986 Pop. Sci. Feb. 93 (advt.) With today's satellite technology a call to Paris is as clear and as easy to make as a call next door.
2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 Feb. c3/3 The Pentagon expects that Iraq may try to jam the satellite signals that guide ‘smart’ bombs to their targets.
2010 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Apr. The ash affected satellite communications in Los Antiguos, a town 120km from the volcano.
2015 M. Shokr & N. K. Sinha Sea Ice vii. 277/1 While sea ice observations from coastal stations and ships have a history of more than 100 years, observations from satellite sensors are relatively new.
(b) With the sense ‘designating images (esp. of a part of the earth) obtained from satellites equipped with cameras or other imaging equipment; of or relating to the production of such images’, as satellite imaging, satellite picture, satellite photo, satellite photography, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > types or methods generally
microphotography1857
pistolgraphy1860
portrait photography1864
pistolography1866
photochronography1887
snap-work1889
gallery-practice1891
photoreproduction1892
telephotography1892
Kodakry1893
fuzzyism1894
mugging1899
action photography1905
press photography1910
trick photography1913
Kodachrome1915
panchromatism1919
photo reporting1935
photojournalism1938
photo-reportage1939
strobe1949
streak photography1950
satellite photography1954
digital photography1972
time-lapse1975
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > by method of photographing
melainotype1856
pistolgram1860
shot1867
snapshot1890
snap1894
telephotograph1894
Kodak1895
kite-photograph1897
close-up1913
vortograph1917
trick shot1924
Photomaton1927
rayograph1933
filter shot1937
flash1945
streak photograph1950
satellite picture1954
telephoto1960
digital photograph1962
xograph1974
digital photo1986
1954 J. E. Lipp & R. M. Salter Project Feed Back Summary Rep. (U.S. Def. Documentation Center) I. p. vii. Emphasis in the report is on reconnaissance utility, and results of interpretation of simulated satellite photographs are included.
1960 Washington Post 2 Apr. 1/5 (caption) The dark area at the bottom is the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Other satellite pictures, Page A6.
1960 Southern Illinoisan 27 May 1/6 (caption) The photo was used to illustrate the intelligence capability of aerial and satellite photography.
1968 IEEE Spectrum June 71/1 This installment concludes with a review of satellite imaging experiments to date.
1981 Topic (Imperial College, London) May 9/1 A photogeology research group has been in existence for many years. Initially concerned with aerial photography, the group now also uses satellite imagery.
1993 T. Clancy Without Remorse (1994) xxviii. 522 He moved his hands across a chart of isobars and the latest satellite photo.
2016 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. c3/1 A pioneering space archaeologist who uses satellite imagery to discover ancient sites and map looting.
(c) With the sense ‘of or relating to a telecommunications or broadcasting service (esp. television) in which signals are transmitted via satellite’, as satellite broadcaster, satellite customer, satellite subscription, etc.See also satellite radio n. (b) at Compounds 2, satellite television n. at Compounds 2, etc.
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1961 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 20 July 4/5 (heading) Private Enterprise Satellite Broadcaster.
1979 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. d33/3 The potential for satellite programming is unlimited.
1987 Economist 7 Feb. 20/2 As more television becomes available through cable and satellite channels, the BBC needs to ask itself what markets are left for it.
1989 Which? Sept. 444/2 Different satellite companies are planning to use different scrambling systems, which means you'd need a separate decoder box for each.
2001 CIO 1 June 124/2 Many satellite customers appreciate the technology's reasonably straightforward sign-up and installation process.
2017 @ced003 8 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I dumped my satellite subscription in July 2016.
d. Computing. Designating a computer or terminal that is connected to a main computer via a network; (also) designating a computer system of this kind.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > workstation
data terminal1958
terminal1958
satellite1961
workstation1972
1961 Electr. Engin. (U.S.) 80 289/1 The Satellite Computer System. Alfred Christofferson, Jr., Control Data Corp.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 95 Input data in cards or paper tape are converted to magnetic tape by the satellite computer.
2004 Behavior & Philos. 32 162 Electrodes in the brain transmit by radio signals the information about B to a satellite computer, which in turn sends signals to the electric motor of an artificial arm.
C2. † satellite point n. Geometry Obsolete rare the point of intersection between a line which passes through a homogeneous third order curve and the satellite line (satellite line n. (a)) associated with it.
satellite aerodrome n. = satellite airfield n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > airfield
satellite airfield1904
air park1908
field1910
airfield1919
flying field1927
satellite aerodrome1940
1940 Manch. Guardian 21 Aug. 2/5 Bombs were dropped on a camp and petrol dump at El Gubbi and the El Gubbi satellite aerodrome was also attacked.
1961 D. Wood & D. Dempster Narrow Margin xvi. 301 Dispersal of aircraft not only to satellite aerodromes, but over wide areas at each of them, combined with lack of transport, increased the labour requirement for a given job.
2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 11 During World War II, there was a satellite aerodrome of Essendon Airport on the east side of Melrose Drive.
satellite airfield n. an airfield that is auxiliary to, and if necessary serves as a substitute for, a larger airfield.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > airfield
satellite airfield1904
air park1908
field1910
airfield1919
flying field1927
satellite aerodrome1940
1904 State Jrnl. (Lansing, Michigan) 5 Dec. 20/3 Capital City airport will become a big airline and air freight terminal, and the thousands of light plane flyers and owners will depend upon the ‘satellite airfields’ within 20 miles of Lansing.
1968 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Sept. 36/1 Flight delays at World Chamberlain and the satellite airfields are almost non-existent.
2016 B. Evans Air Battle for Burma iv. 48 These satellite airfields had taxi strips but no revetments, so the aircraft were parked well apart along the edge of the main strip itself.
satellite-borne adj. borne or carried by an artificial satellite.
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1956 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 16 Sept. (This Week section) 9/2 There is reason to believe that a satellite-borne mouse might develop a space neurosis.
1974 Sci. Amer. June 132/2 Within less than a decade the bulk of transoceanic telephony (and all transoceanic television) has become satellite-borne.
2010 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 26 580/1 All remote-sensing radars, including satellite-borne systems, have the advantage of no instrumentation moored in the open sea.
satellite broadcasting n. broadcasting in which signals are transmitted via satellite; spec. television broadcasting of this kind, typically received by viewers using a satellite dish; cf. direct broadcasting by satellite at direct adj. 6i, satellite television n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > broadcasting by satellite
satellite broadcasting1950
satellite radio1958
1950 U.S. Patent 2,517,891 1 (heading) Method and apparatus for satellite broadcasting.
1994 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 Sept. b2 The hearings will be to determine whether there should be a Canadian-licensed system to provide access to a new direct-to-home TV service through satellite broadcasting.
2004 Independent (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Business section) 36 ITV is considering joining the BBC in a new non-subscription venture which will seek to break BSkyB's monopoly on satellite broadcasting.
satellite camera n. a camera mounted on an artificial satellite for the purpose of taking photographs or video footage of the earth or part of the earth, or of astronomical bodies, phenomena, etc.; (also) a satellite equipped with such a camera.
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1959 Weatherwise Aug. 143 (caption) The same mosaic photograph as above but as it would probably be viewed from a satellite camera.
1989 New Scientist 11 Feb. 30/1 The black-and-white photographs taken by the satellite camera, called MK-4 by the Soviet Union, resolve features less than 5 metres wide.
2011 Independent (Nexis) 6 Aug. Using a satellite camera, scientists have identified craters in which dark, finger-like features appear and seem to flow down slopes during late spring.
satellite cell n. (a) a neuroglial or other non-neural cell serving a supportive or protective role in a neural structure; (in later use) spec. any of a group of such cells surrounding a nerve cell body in a ganglion (also called amphicyte); (b) a small, spindle-shaped muscle cell found at the periphery of skeletal muscle fibres, thought to be involved in the repair of muscle after injury.
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1904 Trans. Section on Pathol. & Physiol.: 55th Session (Amer. Med. Assoc.) 212 Occasionally, beside such a dotted cell, a true satellite cell is found, such as accompanies many normal nerve cells.
1954 M. Singer in R. O. Greep Histology xi. 216 Each cell body of spinal, cranial, and autonomic ganglia is completely encapsulated by a thin membrane composed of so-called satellite cells which contains small, scattered, and flattened nuclei.
1958 Exper. Cell Res. Suppl. No. 5 33 The structural characteristic which is present in all fibers so far studied..is the Schwann or satellite cell which..appears everywhere to enclose the axon.
1961 A. Mauro in Jrnl. Biophysical & Biochem. Cytol. 9 493/1 The presence of certain cells, intimately associated with the muscle fiber, have been observed which we have chosen to call satellite cells.
1971 W. M. Copenhaver et al. Bailey's Textbk. Histol. (ed. 16) x. 259/1 When these companion cells are in association with a nerve cell body.., they are called satellite cells; when they provide ensheathment for axons, they are called neurilemma cells, or cells of Schwann.
2010 Exper. Neurol. 222 161/1 They [sc. postganglionic sympathetic neurons] are completely enveloped in layers of epithelial-like syncytium of satellite cells (amphicytes).
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Science section) A single satellite cell can undergo 75 generations of division during three months, which in theory could produce enough muscle to make 20 trillion turkey nuggets.
satellite colony n. Microbiology and Biology a colony of bacteria, fungi, or eukaryotic cells growing on a solid culture medium in close proximity to a previously established colony (of the same or a different type); spec. a colony of bacteria whose growth is dependent on a factor produced by a nearby colony of bacteria of a different species.
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1896 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 8 847 In ten days to a fortnight the culture becomes powdery, and satellite colonies may appear.
1936 B. C. J. G. Knight Bacterial Nutrition 126 The active substance..is excreted, diffusing through solid media with the result that satellite colonies of influenza bacilli may be formed.
2009 Nature Genetics 41 972/2 Some reprogrammed colonies [of hematopoietic cells] might have originated from identical founder cells that spread and formed satellite colonies on the plate.
satellite dish n. a bowl-shaped antenna used to transmit or receive satellite signals; spec. one used to view satellite television; cf. dish n. 4b.The precise shape of satellite dishes is such that their cross sections are parabolic. This allows them to reflect parallel rays to a single focus point, or to produce a parallel beam from a source at that same point. See parabolic reflector n. at parabolic adj. and n. Compounds.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > satellite
television satellite1952
TV satellite1957
satellite dish1962
direct broadcasting by satellite1977
DBS1981
Squarial1988
1962 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 30 Mar. 3/2 Construction will begin soon on this satellite dish antenna on a hill near Point Mugu.
1989 Japan Times 15 May 17/5 Huge garden (over 100 sq. m.), satellite dish, garage, 138 sq.m.
2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) vii. 150 He put in a request for a $500 satellite dish to downlink video clips from an international news agency for use on the nightly news.
satellite DNA n. Molecular Biology a portion of the total DNA of an organism having a different base composition (and hence buoyant density) than that of the remainder.Such DNA usually consists of multiple copies of one or more base sequences.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1961 S. Kit in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 3 711 The mean buoyant densities of the principal and the satellite mouse DNA bands were 1·701 and 1·690 g cm−3, respectively.
1963 Biochem. & Biophysical Res. Communications 13 128 The association of the satellite DNA with chloroplast-forming ability is likely.
2003 Guardian 24 Apr. (Life section) 7/5 The team isolated DNA from affected plants of the Japanese genus Eupatorium and searched for satellite DNA and for sequences from a geminivirus.
satellite feed n. an audio or video broadcast transmitted via satellite; esp. one that is recorded live and is intended to form part of a radio or television programme.
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1969 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 July 5/2 The evening program will also feature live satellite feed from Hawaii, London, Newport and Los Angeles.
1990 Farmweek 14 Mar. 13/1 Daschle, who appeared on a satellite feed from Washington, said legislation he and three other senators are proposing will place price and flexibility as the top priorities of the new farm bill.
2012 D. F. Herrick Media Managem. in Age of Giants (ed. 2) 177 In many radio operations there are no personnel at all, as computers hum along, coordinating all of the programming from satellite feeds.
satellite killer n. a weapon designed to destroy artificial satellites in orbit around the earth; an anti-satellite weapon.
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1977 Guardian Weekly 2 Oct. 15/2 A new weapon that could destroy Soviet satellites in space... Vought is expected to have a battle version of the satellite killer ready to test in space in about two years.
1977 Time 17 Oct. 32/1 The U.S. will now emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version.
2010 J. W. Horton Great Collapse xiii. 100 It will take us at least that long to prepare our satellite killers to take out their bird.
satellite line n. †(a) Geometry the line passing through the three points where a homogeneous third order curve is cut by tangents drawn at the three points where another line passes through the curve (obsolete); = sense 5; (b) (in spectroscopy) a secondary or additional spectral line appearing in a spectrum, typically near to and with less intensity than one of the main lines or bands; = sense 6.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > [noun] > spectral line > caused by irregularity, spurious
satellite line1857
satellite1882
1857 A. Cayley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 147 ii. 416 It is a well-known theorem, that if at the points of intersection of a given line with a given cubic tangents are drawn to the cubic, these tangents again meet the cubic in three points which lie in a line; such line is in the present memoir termed the satellite line of the given line.
1903 Sci. Abstr. A. 6 74 The six series show six different types, one to each; and in addition we have the types of the satellite lines, which differ from one another.
2016 Physical Rev. Appl. 6 24002-6/2 The spectra show also smaller satellite lines.
satellite link n. a means of telecommunication in which signals are transmitted via satellite.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > link or network > satellite
communication satellite1957
communications satellite1957
satellite link1959
Intelsat1966
1959 Proc. IRE 47 372/2 A satellite link with attractive properties could be attained within existing microwave art.
1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxiv. 504 You should have told Ritter that there had to be someone to liaise with the soldiers instead of trying to run it through a satellite link.
2018 Times (Nexis) 10 May 21 Russian television refused to broadcast the contest, despite efforts by the European Broadcasting Union to negotiate a compromise that would have enabled Samoylova..to perform over a satellite link.
satellite male n. Zoology (in a community of animals) a subordinate male that imitates the appearance or behaviour of a female in order to deceive the dominant or territorial male and gain opportunities to breed; (formerly also) a male that lives on the periphery of a territory.
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1964 CSIRO Wildlife Res. 9 142 It was a common occurrence each night to observe the active satellite male and the dominant male from the [rabbit] warren running along a line around the warren.
1964 Arch. Néederlandaises de Zoologie 16 155 Satellite-males [sc. ruffs] do not possess a residence on the lek. A satellite-male makes use of the residences of the resident-males and stays together with a resident-male on his residence.
1983 A. Arak in P. Bateson Mate Choice viii. 188 Small males [sc. bullfrogs] sit near the territorial male to intercept females attracted to the caller. Such satellite males do not call.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 July 5/3 Satellite males are conventionally thought to be ‘female mimics’.
satellite navigation n. navigation by means of, or assisted by, positional information transmitted via satellite; cf. satnav n. 1, GPS n. at G n. Initialisms.
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1959 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 7 Feb. 4/6 The differences in the earth's diameters at various points—25 to 50 miles—can now be charted accurately by aid of satellite navigation.
1975 Offshore Progress—Technol. & Costs (Shell Briefing Service) 7 With satellite navigation, however, the rig can fix its own position by computer, processing signals received from orbiting satellites.
1981 New Scientist 5 Feb. 340/1 It may well be the spectre of Japan that has hastened the downward movement of the prices of satellite navigation systems—satnavs—to the sailor.
2010 S. Thirsk Not quite White (2011) 20 I wondered if Mam had any idea about satellite navigation or internet route finders.
satellite observatory n. an artificial satellite equipped with instruments for making astronomical observations.
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1947 Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger 3 July 4/2 He believes science will someday produce what he calls a ‘satellite observatory’.
1989 M. Longair in P. Davies New Physics vi. 132/1 (caption) An X-ray image of the supernova remnant Cassiopaeia A taken by the Einstein X-ray satellite observatory.
2012 S. Carroll Particle at End of Universe xii. 251 Among the particles produced..will be gamma rays (high-energy photons), which can be searched for using satellite observatories.
satellite phone n. a telephone that transmits and receives signals via satellite, rather than using terrestrial landlines, radio masts, etc.; = satellite telephone n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone
telephone instrument1844
telephone1864
phone1884
telephone set1884
set?1891
tubec1899
handset1901
blower1922
the horn1945
satellite telephone1961
dog1979
satellite phone1982
1982 Sports Illustr. 9 Aug. 17 They had a satellite phone on board..so I called in every night to find out how the Braves did.
2002 India Weekly 2 Aug. 30/1 Guerrillas..have initiated a move to acquire state-of-the-art satellite phones of Chinese origin to improve their communications.
2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Dec. b8/5 It [sc. the security firm] also devises family emergency plans for $7,500, including ‘go packs’ filled with food, money, clothing and a satellite phone.
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1857 A. Cayley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 147 ii. 416 Such line is in the present memoir termed the satellite line of the given line, and the point of intersection of the two lines is termed the satellite point of the given line.
satellite radio n. (a) a radio designed to receive signals transmitted via satellite; (b) the use of satellites to transmit radio broadcasts; radio in which the signal is transmitted via satellite.
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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > broadcasting by satellite
satellite broadcasting1950
satellite radio1958
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radio set
wireless set1907
wireless1909
radio1912
radio set1912
satellite radio1958
digital radio1970
digital radio1979
1958 Garfieldian (Chicago) 26 Feb. 4 g (heading) ‘Do-it-Yourself’ Satellite Radio Devised by Woman.
1973 Pioneer All-Alaska Weekly 11 May 3/2 There's not much interest in satellite radio at this time.
2000 Pop. Sci. Nov. 85/2 Satellite radios will still be able to receive existing analog AM and FM stations.
2011 N. J. Medoff & B. K. Kaye Electronic Media (ed. 2) i. 9/1 Satellite radio requires a special receiver and a paid subscription, but it can certainly be worth it when you consider that you have access to over 200 channels.
satellite surveillance n. surveillance (esp. the interception of communication signals or visual monitoring of a particular area) carried out by means of a satellite or network of satellites.
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1958 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 9 Mar. 3/3 The free world must win the race to achieve the inter-continental missile and the establishment of satellite surveillance.
1983 New Scientist 10 Feb. 356/1 By providing reliable information on military activity, satellite surveillance could cut out the uncertainty which fuels arms spending.
2007 H. Gardner Averting Global War viii. 173 The burgeoning capabilities of U.S. antimissile defence systems (linked to satellite surveillance) threaten that limited deterrent.
satellite telescope n. an astronomical telescope designed to operate in orbit around the earth.The more usual term is space telescope (space telescope n. at space n.1 Compounds 4).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope > other telescopes
polemoscope1668
finder1738
night-glass1758
collimator1825
floating collimator1833
lookdown1865
guiding telescope1897
autocollimator1903
kinetheodolite1941
finderscope1946
satellite telescope1951
scotoscope1964
starlight scope1964
1951 J. P. Marbarger Space Med. 26 If we turn such a satellite telescope to the outer reaches of the universe, the planets and the stars, we shall find observation conditions which no terrestrial observatory could equal.
1993 Science 2 July 30/1 X-ray astronomers in Italy and the United States have proposed a new satellite telescope, the Wide Field X- Ray Telescope, to map clusters over 100 square degrees, to a red shift of 2.0.
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 May The Canadian Space Agency agreed to train its satellite telescopes on the spot and returned with striking pictures: what appears to be an ancient Mayan pyramid and dozens of smaller structures around it.
satellite telephone n. a telephone that transmits and receives signals via satellite, rather than using terrestrial landlines, radio masts, etc.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone
telephone instrument1844
telephone1864
phone1884
telephone set1884
set?1891
tubec1899
handset1901
blower1922
the horn1945
satellite telephone1961
dog1979
satellite phone1982
1961 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. 31/5 A.T.&T. explains satellite telephone goals.
1980 U.S. News & World Rep. 29 Sept. 36/2 On many occasions, for example, Carter speaks via satellite telephone directly with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat.
2003 Daily Tel. 28 May 3/3 The battery on his satellite telephone went dead, leaving him with only a signal beacon as a means of contact with his team.
satellite television n. television broadcasting in which signals are transmitted via satellite and typically received by viewers using a satellite dish; television services transmitted or received in this way; cf. satellite TV n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1961 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 67/2 I have in mind, as one example, the employment of global satellite television as a new channel of communication among heads of state.
1989 Green Mag. Dec. 98/2 The possibility for a sixth channel and now, satellite television, mean that ‘virgin’ frequency bands are increasingly threatened.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 Mar. b4/2 The findings could call into question the assumption that Netflix, Amazon and Hulu cause people to cancel their subscriptions to traditional cable or satellite television.
satellite tracking n. the use of a satellite or satellites to track the movements of something; (also occasionally) the tracking of an artificial satellite or satellites.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1956 Sci. News Let. 4 Feb. 68/2 Dr. J. Allen Hynek will be associate director of the Satellite Tracking Program.
1963 R. M. Endlich & R. L. Mancuso Objective & Dynamical Stud. of Trop. Weather Phenomena (U.S. Def. Document Center for Sci. & Techn. Information) 3 It is to be hoped that difficulties due to lack of data and of communication facilities will be resolved in the next decade by use of satellite observations of clouds, satellite tracking of constant-level balloons, use of remote reporting stations, etc.
1969 Listener 20 Feb. 233/2 Satellite tracking is not as easy as it appears.
1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) iv. 301 The Steese Highway has numerous historical sites as well as a NASA satellite tracking facility alongside it that is open to the public.
2017 Sunday Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 21 May (Business section) 6 While there is great fanfare about the prospect of millions of cars zooming across roads under the guidance of electronic sensors and satellite tracking, the finer details–like who pays the bill for a crash–are still being worked out.
satellite TV n. = satellite television n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1961 New Scientist 12 Jan. 85/1 Many-channelled satellite TV almost inevitably will follow..the two simpler types of communication that activate computers—satellite telephony and high fidelity radio.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 134 The games-bar has darts, two pool-tables, dominoes, fruit machine, space game and satellite TV with three screens.
2006 D. Winner Those Feet 36 Thanks to satellite TV, globalisation, Europeanisation and the increasing cosmopolitanism of English society, foreigners came to dominate English football.
satellite vein n. Anatomy (now rare) a vein that closely accompanies an artery; = vena comitans n. at vena n. 4. [After French veines satellites, plural ( J. B. Winslow Exposition anatomique (1732) iii. 151). Compare post-classical Latin venae satellites, plural (1733 in a translation of Winslow) and French satellite, noun (1805 in this sense).]
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein
middle veina1398
portaa1398
saphena1398
funisa1400
sciaticaa1400
guidesc1400
haemorrhoidc1400
salvatellac1400
liver veina1425
median?a1425
mesaraic?a1425
sciatic?a1425
venal artery?a1425
sciat1503
organal vein1523
axillar?1541
weeping vein1543
port-vein1586
lip-vein1598
nose vein1598
sciatic vein1598
cephalic vein1599
hollow vein1605
jugular1615
scapulary1615
subclavian vein1615
umbilical vessel1615
basilica1625
porter-vein1625
neck vein1639
garter-vein1656
matricious vein1656
sacred vein1656
subclavicular1656
subclavial1664
vertebral1718
portal vein1765
cava1809
satellite vein1809
brachial1859
innominate vein1866
precaval1866
postcava1882
precava1882
postcaval1891
Vesalian vein1891
sciatic1892
subcardinal1902
1809 B. Parr London Med. Dict. II. 547/1 Satellite veins, are those which accompany the brachial artery to the bend of the elbow.
1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 126 On the upper third of the fore-arm, the artery..has always two satellite veins [Fr. veines satellites].
1917 W. G. Christian Textbk. Anat. for Nurses 127 It [sc. the brachial artery] has satellite veins, one on each side.
2014 R. F. Woldenberg & M. A. Kohn in M. J. Aminoff & R. B. Daroff Encycl. Neurol. Sci. (ed. 2) I. 1041/1 One path involves the paired satellite veins that accompany each meningineal [sic] artery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
satellitev.
/ˈsatəlʌɪt/, /ˈsatl̩ʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈsædlˌaɪt/ rare before late 19th cent.
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a. transitive. To accompany, attend, or orbit (something or someone) as or like a satellite (in various senses); to surround with satellites. Chiefly in passive.Recorded earliest in shone-satellited; cf. shone adv.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > aid, help, or assist [verb (transitive)] > help as subsidiary > act as assistant to > attend upon like a servant
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satellite1911
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 82 The skie did open, and adowne discended..A Mayden-Nymph most shone-satellited With all the Angell-court of heauen.
1710 C. Mather Bonifacius App. 196 They have the whole Bible in their own Language... This Great Light has been Satellited, with other Books which we have also Printed for them, in their own Language.
1845 Morning Post 8 Nov. 6/2 This niger [sc. a rook] is satellited by a pair of starlings, who attend him on his flights, and accompany him homewards.
1911 Munsey's Mag. Oct. 141/2 He discovered..that this friend was permitted to live and travel with the star, and that for the privilege of satelliting celebrity, she answered all Miss Fox's letters.
1922 H. Hutchinson Chanting Wheels xvii. 215 He nodded and strode down the room, satellited by Parker.
1955 New Outlook Oct. 69/1 Believing the world was the flat and glorified center for a revolving sun and moon, satellited by the entire galaxy of stars and planets.
2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 16 July 16 Louche, non-committal and satellited by protective servants..and assorted hangers-on, Essendine is never off the stage.
b. intransitive. To orbit about or around something or someone as or like a satellite (in various senses).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle > like a satellite
satellite1911
1911 ‘M. Juneau’ Sylph 108 Dozens of the distinguished men of the day satellited and dangled about her.
1959 IRE Trans. Mil. Electronics 3 62/2 Mission periods of the order of one year (including a brief period..of satelliting about the target planet).
2012 Irish Times 29 Oct. 14/6 Cagney and Lacey allowed women to stop satelliting around male characters on television.
2. transitive. To transmit (a signal, broadcast, etc.) by means of a communications satellite.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay > communicate by satellite
satellite1974
1974 Listener 14 Dec. 826 The telephone woke me. It was Peter Lynch, our contact in Tel Aviv (from where our film was being satellited).
1994 BBC TV Series... in alt.tv.red-dwarf (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Mar. 1st I've heard of BBC satelliting stuff direct.
2015 MailOnline (Nexis) 13 Mar. He preaches all over the world, but primarily works out of a 8,500-seat amphitheater in Atlanta called the ‘World Dome’, satelliting the sermons to churches all over the country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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